Mick Finlay Books in Order

In Victorian South London, private investigator William Arrowood serves clients who cannot afford Sherlock Holmes. A disappearance and the murder of a crucial witness send Arrowood and his assistant Barnett into conflict with a powerful criminal gang.

William Arrowood and his assistant Barnett are hired to find Birdie, a daughter who has vanished from her parents’ lives after marrying a pig farmer. Their apparently straightforward inquiry leads into a disturbing world of confinement and violence.

A pleasure-steamer captain hires Arrowood to investigate damage to his boat on the Thames. Suspected rivalry between operators becomes a murder inquiry when a gruesome discovery in the river forces Arrowood and Barnett to search for a much darker motive.

Arrowood and Barnett agree to protect African travellers fleeing a showman who forces them to perform in an exhibition. Finding two murders at their Quaker refuge sends the investigators into Victorian London’s brutal entertainment business and a desperate search for survivors.